Bangalore - Goa : Route Queries

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Hi Guys. I will be going to Goa (candolim) from Bangalore during December. Wanted to know the fastest route to Goa.
Google Maps suggests the following route : bangalore - tumakur - chitradunga - haveli - hubli dharwad - Candolim.
I just wanna get their at using least amount of time.
Also any idea how much will the the total toll tax one way ? Someone suggested that total could go up-to Rs 2000 for one way !

Hi Guys. I will be going to Goa (candolim) from Bangalore during December. Wanted to know the fastest route to Goa.
Google Maps suggests the following route : bangalore - tumakur - chitradunga - haveli - hubli dharwad - Candolim.
I just wanna get their at using least amount of time.
Also any idea how much will the the total toll tax one way ? Someone suggested that total could go up-to Rs 2000 for one way !

The default route shown by Google is good except for a 20 km of very bad roads between Ramnagar and Goa border (NH 4A). So to avoid this take the Chorla route via Khanapur, Jamboti. Route link.

Refer to this post for food/refuel options upto Hubli. After Hubli, no food option till you reach Goa.

On Hubli-Dharwad Bypass buy toll ticket for last exit (50 INR) but you need to exit 4 kms before the last exit. There will be a signage marked for Alnavar. Essentially, if you note down the Trip meter at the entry toll, this exit will be apprx 26 kms

As soon as you exit and take left, you will be on Alnavar-Ramnagar tolled road where you need to pay toll of 55 INR (unless its increased now)

Drive on this road till you near Alnavar and after passing Alnavar on your left, at the next fork, take right for Khanapur (left hand of the fork leads to Ramnagar)

Cross Khanapur and reach Jamboti. Khanapur-Jamboti is 15 kms, Narrow, Freshly laid and broken soon but still worth driving between 45-60kmph easily with very less traffic

At Jamboti, continue towards Chorla (Right leads to Belgaum City)

I took this exact route on 22nd Oct 2015. Thanks for mentioning this route. It was a very good drive. My destination was Morjim so I did not want to take the longer Karwar route. I've had both good and bad experience with the route through Ramanagar via NH4A so I was skeptical about taking that route since the monsoon season has just ended and there were good chances that the roads will be bad. I also read that there is a 30 km bad stretch on that route.

My total distance from home (Yelahanka) to Morjim was 591 kms. We started pretty late (10 am). The only problem was that it got dark, roads were narrow, there was dense forest after khanapur and people do not believe in driving in low beam so that slowed us down a bit but overall the roads were in very good condition. It took around 11 hours to complete the journey with 2 small breaks. Took the same route back to Bangalore and it was a lot of fun to drive in the daytime. Return took 13 hours through because of the long weekend traffic, several accidents on the highway and long queues on tolls.

There have been conversations around a rough patch on descending towards Ankola enroute NH63.

Just needed to understand if anyone has tried the SH6, which actually is the extention of the Yellapura-Mungod road, i.e. just at the Idgundi 'Y' junction, the road to the left links NH63-NH17, and at the right it continues as SH6, runs adjacent to the Kadra reservoir/Kali river and joins at Karwar city and subsequently NH17.

Took the trip from Blr to Goa on 22nd Oct, 2015 and returned on 26th Oct, 2015.
Went via MK Hubli route. During our travel towards Goa, we got caught up amidst a riot (sort of) near MK Hubli Khanapur crossing where it merges with NH4A. It was really scary and we lost around 1.5 hours due to this.
Otherwise the route was great. Took us 12.5 hrs to reach Goa (3am to 3:30pm with, one long stop of 1 hr) and the return took around 13 hrs (4:30am to 5:30pm, with multiple short stops and Bangalore traffic ate up around 40 mins extra).
We had rented a Swift LDi Zoomcar. The car was in excellent condition and enabled us to complete 1725 kms with a smile.

Onward: Since I am staying in north Bangalore, took Yelahanka - Doddaballapur (NH 207) to reach Dabaspet to avoid Nelamangala traffic. About 25 KM after Haveri bypass, exit to SH6 to reach Yellapur via Mundgod (as advised by Parag). This is a single line road cutting through many villages but very scenic. Roads are rough near villages. Need to be careful about those small humps.